Kim Sowol's most famous lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 22 votes from people: Name shattered to pieces! / Name scattered in the empty air! / Name with no owner when I call it! / Name I will die calling! · Mother, sister, let us live by the river: / glittering golden sand in the yard, / the song of the reeds beyond the back gate. · Even if I turn to stone standing here, / name I will die calling! / The one I loved! / The one I loved!. (Updated Nov 18, 2021.)
From "Azaleas" ("I will send you off quietly, without a word") to "Mother, Sister", "The Invocation" and "Mountain Flowers": the best-known lines by Kim Sowol (1902–1934), the folk-song lyric poet who died at 32, mainly from his collection Azaleas (1925).
Automatically translated (original in 한국어). See the original
Top 12
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Name shattered to pieces! / Name scattered in the empty air! / Name with no owner when I call it! / Name I will die calling!
Poem "The Invocation", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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Mother, sister, let us live by the river: / glittering golden sand in the yard, / the song of the reeds beyond the back gate.
Poem "Mother, Sister", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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Even if I turn to stone standing here, / name I will die calling! / The one I loved! / The one I loved!
Poem "The Invocation", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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When you leave, / weary of seeing me, / I will send you off quietly, without a word.
Poem "Azaleas", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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The little bird that sings on the mountain / loves the flowers / and lives / on the mountain.
Poem "Mountain Flowers", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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From Mount Yak in Yeongbyeon / I will pick an armful of azaleas / and scatter them on the road you take.
Poem "Azaleas", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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When you leave, / weary of seeing me, / I will not shed a tear, even if I die.
Poem "Azaleas", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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You will think of me, unable to forget; / even so, live your life out.
Poem "Unable to Forget", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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Should I say / I miss you? / When I think it, I miss you more.
Poem "The Way Out", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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If only we had land of our own to set our ploughshares in!
Poem "If Only We Had Land to Plough".
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On the mountain flowers bloom, / flowers bloom, / autumn, spring and summer, / flowers bloom.
Poem "Mountain Flowers", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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If you come looking for me someday far away, / then my words will be: "I have forgotten."
Poem "Someday Far Away", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
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